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Aaddendum to Flag Day: x86 build machines need SUNWggrp from SFW

Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:54 -0700
From: George Vasick <George.Vasick at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Aaddendum to Flag Day: x86 build machines need SUNWggrp from SFW

We have discovered a problem for people running update_sfw on older
systems.  The critical boundary appears to be build 107 where vasprintf
was added to libc and subsequently referenced by newer versions of GCC
through its auto configuration step.

If you currently have /usr/bin/ggrep installed on your system and your
build is working fine, no further action is required.

If you are on an older system and do not already have /usr/bin/ggrep
installed, you should just add the SUNWggrp package.  Do not run the
update_sfw script.

Sorry for the confusion,
George

George Vasick wrote:
> This flag day is for x86 build machine maintainers.  SPARC builds are
> not affected at this time because the affected code is only
> built for x86.
>> Beginning with version 2.18, the GNU assembler dropped support for the
> -K option.  The GNU assembler wrapper, usr/src/tools/aw/aw.c, has been
> modified to conditionally add the -K option depending on the version of
> the assembler.  The wrapper now uses ggrep to perform the version test.
>> In order for the upcoming ON bits to compile and build correctly, x86
> build machine maintainers will need to have the latest SUNWggrp package
> installed on their systems.
>> The SUNWggrp package has been included in the core meta cluster for some
> time although we were not able to determine exactly when it was added.
> If you do not already have the package, you can obtain it from the SFW
> consolidation gate:
>> http://onnv.sfbay/links/ws/sfwnv-gate/packages/i386/nightly-nd/SUNWggrp/
>> Alternatively, running /ws/onnv-gate/public/bin/update_sfw will result
> in the latest version of this (and all other SFW packages required by
> ON) being updated.
>>> Thanks,
> George
>